Visual studio installer and activeX exe?

[JohnGH]

Hi I am trying to register a ActiveX exe file with
Visual Studio Installer 1.1, but when I tell it the
file's register type = 1-vsifrSelfReg. I keep
getting the message :"Error 1904. Module ...
failed to register. HRESULT -2147024796.
Contact your support person."

Does anyone know how I can get it to register
the exe?

John

[DerFarm]

You could start here.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q237294


I don't know if this will be of any help, it's oriented toward
installing Office 2000.

[JohnGH]

The problem is that I want to fix the problem from the
installation package. What I did find is that if I execute
the executable with the parameter /regserver it will
register it.
Now I still need to know how I can execute a program
from the Visual Studio Installer 1.1.

John

[WALDO]

I'm not sure that you could use an installer to register an ActiveX EXE. Most installers shell out to regsvr32.exe. I know for a fact that if you run regsvr32.exe and pass in the name of your ActiveX EXE, then it will fail. Maybe someone knows a parameter to pass into regsvr32 to allow ActiveX EXE's to be registered.

[ruyeno22]

is it dead???

i was looking for it two days ago, and i was directed to a non-existing page...

is it no longer suported???

i would really like to play with it

[JohnGH]

Like I said I know when you run an ActiveX exe with the parameter /regserver it wil register.
Only I don't know how I can use Visual Studio Installer to run
the command for me.

PS Visual Studio Installler is available at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/do...1/download.asp

[WALDO]

When you run the EXE with the parameter /regserver, does it actually run the EXE, or does it simply register the EXE? I know if I just run the EXE (without parameters), it registers itself.

[JohnGH]

When I just run the Exe it will execute the exe and using the /regserver will just register it.
Do you know how I can execute commands from Visual Studio Installer?

[WALDO]

Is there a shell or shellExecute command? Perhaps like Installshield, LaunchApp?

[JohnGH]

Not as far as I can tell.
Is there any other installer that is able to make msi files?
Which perhaps is available for free?

[WALDO]

InstallShield for Windows Installer, but it will cost you some moolah.